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A rhythm changes its surface

Repeated shapes cross a rounded vessel, a textile and a photographic sequence.

An authored path / 6 works

How do repeated marks turn into rhythm, pattern, or time?

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  1. Red-brown boats and repeated marks travel around a pale rounded vessel.
    A vessel carrying boatsMaker unrecorded · ca. 3500–3300 BCEThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0
    Image & source
    Red-brown boats and repeated marks travel around a pale rounded vessel.

    Clay / Source record

    A vessel carrying boats

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    Maker
    Maker unrecorded
    Date
    ca. 3500–3300 BCE
    Medium
    Pottery, paint
    Collection
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Accession
    36.1.121
    Credit
    Rogers Fund, 1936
    Rights
    Public domain · CC0

    Public domain · CC0. Resized and converted to WebP; no recoloring. Homepage details may be cropped; work record presents the full image. Editorial views may show a detail.

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    A vessel carrying boats

    Count the short strokes below the boat and the curved bands above it. How do they keep the surface moving?

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    Pottery, paint
    Maker unrecorded · ca. 3500–3300 BCE

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  2. Small red and white squares form a repeating lattice across a cotton quilt.
    Burgoyne Surrounded quiltMartha A. Page · 1852The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0
    Image & source
    Small red and white squares form a repeating lattice across a cotton quilt.

    Textile / Source record

    Burgoyne Surrounded quilt

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    Maker
    Martha A. Page
    Date
    1852
    Medium
    Cotton
    Collection
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Accession
    2017.17
    Credit
    Purchase, Louis and Virginia Clemente Foundation Inc. Gift, 2017
    Rights
    Public domain · CC0

    Public domain · CC0. Resized and converted to WebP; no recoloring. Homepage details may be cropped; work record presents the full image. Editorial views may show a detail.

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    Burgoyne Surrounded quilt

    Pick one small red square, then watch the same unit build borders, fields, and scale across the cloth.

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    Cotton
    Martha A. Page · 1852

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  3. Sequential photographs set moments of bodily movement beside one another.
    Animal Locomotion: a sequenceEadweard Muybridge · 1880sThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0
    Image & source
    Sequential photographs set moments of bodily movement beside one another.

    Movement / Source record

    Animal Locomotion: a sequence

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    Maker
    Eadweard Muybridge
    Date
    1880s
    Medium
    Photogravures
    Collection
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Accession
    1991.1135.7
    Credit
    Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
    Rights
    Public domain · CC0

    Public domain · CC0. Resized and converted to WebP; no recoloring. Homepage details may be cropped; work record presents the full image. Editorial views may show a detail.

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    Animal Locomotion: a sequence

    Read a single row from left to right. Notice what stays fixed in the frame while the figure changes.

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    Photogravures
    Eadweard Muybridge · 1880s

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  4. Band — Band. Medium: silk, linen Technique: embroidered.
    BandMaker unrecorded · 17th centuryCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · CC0
    Image & source
    Band — Band. Medium: silk, linen Technique: embroidered.

    Band / Source record

    Band

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    Maker
    Maker unrecorded
    Date
    17th century
    Medium
    Medium: silk, linen Technique: embroidered
    Collection
    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
    Accession
    1938-57-1208-a
    Credit
    Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
    Rights
    Public domain · CC0

    Public domain · CC0. Unchanged copy of the institution’s verified web image; smaller responsive JPEGs are resized derivatives. Full-resolution image remains linked to the institution. Editorial views may show a detail.

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    Band

    Follow the embroidered motif along Cooper Hewitt’s linen band, where counted threads turn every stitch into a rhythmic unit.

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    Medium: silk, linen Technique: embroidered
    Maker unrecorded · 17th century

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  5. Tile
    Tile, large square. Broken corner rejoinedMaker unrecorded · late 12th-early 13th centuryNational Museum of Asian Art · CC0
    Image & source
    Tile

    Architectural Element / Source record

    Tile, large square. Broken corner rejoined

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    Maker
    Maker unrecorded
    Date
    late 12th-early 13th century
    Medium
    Stone-paste painted underglaze
    Collection
    National Museum of Asian Art
    Accession
    F1908.119
    Credit
    Gift of Charles Lang Freer
    Rights
    Public domain · CC0

    Public domain · CC0. Unchanged copy of the institution’s verified web image; smaller responsive JPEGs are resized derivatives. Full-resolution image remains linked to the institution. Editorial views may show a detail.

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    Tile, large square. Broken corner rejoined

    Trace the repeating border ornament across the rejoined corner of this Kashan tile at the National Museum of Asian Art.

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    Stone-paste painted underglaze
    Maker unrecorded · late 12th-early 13th century

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  6. Color print of a Japanese landscape with a person on horseback in the foreground, flanked by several trees and low green hills. Beyond this figure, others on ferries cross a winding river in rowboats toward tent-like structures in the distance. Vertical text in Japanese peppers the top half of the work, with text in a vertical red banner at upper right.
    Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858 · c. 1837/42The Art Institute of Chicago · CC0
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    Color print of a Japanese landscape with a person on horseback in the foreground, flanked by several trees and low green hills. Beyond this figure, others on ferries cross a winding river in rowboats toward tent-like structures in the distance. Vertical text in Japanese peppers the top half of the work, with text in a vertical red banner at upper right.

    Print / Source record

    Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)

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    Maker
    Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
    Date
    c. 1837/42
    Medium
    Color woodblock print; chuban
    Collection
    The Art Institute of Chicago
    Accession
    1930.59
    Credit
    Clarence Buckingham Collection
    Rights
    Public domain · CC0

    Public domain · CC0. Unchanged copy of the institution’s verified web image; smaller responsive JPEGs are resized derivatives. Full-resolution image remains linked to the institution. Editorial views may show a detail.

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    Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)

    Notice how repeated poles, boats, and sandbars measure the distance across the misty river in Chicago’s Hiroshige print.

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    Color woodblock print; chuban
    Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858 · c. 1837/42

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